International bekannt wurde Iwan Baan durch seine belebten Baustellenfotos des Vogelnest-Stadions von Herzog & de Meurons sowie des CCTV-Tower von Rem Koolhaas in Peking. Jetzt zeigt der junge niederländische Architekturfotograf im Marta in Herford, dass ihn nicht nur grosse Gebäudeikonen interessieren.
Read the complete article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung…
An exhibition in Germany celebrates the Dutch photographer, a reference point for the most important architects of our time.
“At a higher artistic level, there’s the example of the Instagram of architectural photographer Iwan Baan. His Instagram (http://instagram.com/iwanbaan/) reveals that he has seen more contemporary architecture (and more of it from helicopters) than anyone. I find something aggrandising, even aggressive, about the relentlessness of his travel and the harsh aerial views. There’s also something humanising about his Instagram as a series of outtakes, capturing the surround for the more perfect images that end up on the websites of the architects. We see the faces of people, the buildings imperfectly lit or weathered. The heroic and the ordinary combine in this extra work, and will ultimately contribute to the way we look at the official pictures too.”
TIME Magazine picked the aerial photo of New York after Hurricane Sandy as the top photographic magazine cover of the year.
Traditional brick-and-mortar bookstores have proved vulnerable to e-books and the web, but many new hotels aim to distinguish themselves with old-fashioned pages that guests can actually turn, housing libraries that range from historic collections to trendy ones.
Iwan Baan, fotograaf van iconische huizen en gebouwen over de hele wereld.
Listen the interview (in Dutch) on Radio 1…
The new Pérez Art Museum that opened here last week embodies a vernacular style—deep-shaded, loose-limbed and connected to the tropics—that should have been but never was because of those two invasive species, Art Deco and the air conditioner.
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Other news coverage:
One of the most widely published photographers of contemporary architecture, Iwan Baan is noted for his documentary images that narrate the life and interactions occurring within architecture. His approachable photos focused on the portrayal of people in the sociocultural context of architecture intrigue such clients as Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito and Zaha Hadid, but also The New York Times, Domus or Abitare.
We met the Amsterdam-born photographer at work in the northern French town of Lens, where he captured the poetic architecture of the new Louvre for ERCO. In our film interview Baan, who is in his mid-thirties, sheds light on his photographic style, his approach to architecture, and his first camera.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I chartered a helicopter and shot the now iconic image of New York without power.
November 3rd, 2013
A selection of the press about the cover:
Artinfo: Post-Sandy, Two Icons Emerge From the Architectural World
Time Magazine: A COVER FOR THE AGES
The Verge: How the iconic post-Sandy ‘New York’ cover photo was shot
NYMAG: More Images From New York’s Sandy Cover
Architizer: How Iwan Baan got that phenomenal shot
Phaidon: Iwan Baan photographs a powerless New York
Developer Stephen Ross has selected the British artist and designer Thomas Heatherwick to create what could be one of the most expensive works of public art in the world, in the hopes of establishing a must-see attraction at the heart of his $15 billion Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s West Side.
Read the complete article in The Wall Street Journal…